Frederick clauss



'(No Mode-1.) 4 P. C LAUS S. GAS GENERATOR.

No. 311,161. Patented Jan.20`,1885.

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Miren drames .maar @erica FREDERICK GLAUSS, OF ELlZABETH, NEV JERSEY.

GAS-GENERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 311,161, dated January20, 1885.

Application filed May 527, 1884. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK GLAUss, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Elizabeth, in the county of Union and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGas-Generators, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved apparatusfor generating io gas in such quantities as are required.

The invention consists in the combination, with a vessel for receivingacid, of a funnelshaped flexible vessel held on the top of the same, andprovided with a top from which a :r 5 vessel is suspended which containsmarbledust.

The apparatus is provided with an outletpipe for the gas, and withguiding devices, and operates in a manner that will be fully de-Y 2oscribed hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-sect-ional elevationof my improved gas-generator. Fig. 2 is .a sectional plan view of thesame on the line x x, Fig. 1.

The glass or earthenware vessel A is provided with a ilaring neck, B,around which the lower end of a funnel-shaped soft-rubber flexiblefunnel-shaped extension, C, is clamped by a ring, D, provided on itsends with jaws 3o D', through which a bolt, E, is passed. In

the top or wider end of the said rubber flexible funnel-shaped extensionC a cover, F, is

held, on which the edge of the said vessel C is clamped by a ring, G,having jaws G on its 3 5 ends, through which jaws a bolt, H, ispassed.

A rod, J, secured in the cover or top F, projects upward from the same,and on the lower end of the same a hook, K, is formed, which projectsfrom the under side of the said top.

4o rI he rod J passes through a guide-arm, L', formed on a standard, L,projecting upward from a base, M, on which the vessel A rests. Anapertured vessel, N, made of glass, earthenware, glazed metal, or anyother suitable 4 5 material, is suspended by means of its bail O fromthe hook K. A ilexible tube, P, provided with a cock, P', has one endsecured in the cover F, and leads to the barrel or other. vessel inwhich the gas is required. Marble pieces or other carbonate of lime istllled into 5o the vessel N.

The rod J can be locked in place, and the flexible funnel-shapedextension C held secured by means of the 'binding-screwV in theend ofthe arm L.

Other gases may be generated in this apparatus by changing the materialsused.

The operation is as follows: When the gas in the flexible funnel-shapedextension C is exhausted, it collapses, as shown in dotted lines 6o inFig. 1, whereby the vessel N descends into acid contained in the vesselA. The acid acts on the marble-dust in the vessel N, and thuscarbonio-acid gas is generated, whereby the cover F is raised, and thevessel N is lifted out 6 5 of the acid and the generation of gas ceases.As soon as the ilexible funnel-shaped eXtension C is exhausted orpartially exhausted, again the vessel N descends into the acid and moregas is generated, and so on, the appa- 7o ratus working automaticallyand generating the gas as rapidly and in such quantities as the same isrequired.

The special advantage of my improved apparatus is that not avery greatpressure of gas is required to raise the cover F and the vessel Nsuspended from the same, and thus the rubber ilexible funnel-shaped`extension C` is not subjected to any undue strains. As the flexiblefunnel-shaped extension C is made So conical, it can fold or collapsewithout forming wrinkles, and thus the said vessel will last longer. Thecover F can be weighted, if desired.

The ilexible funnel-shaped extension C need not necessarily be made ofrubber, but can be made of any other suitable air-tight material.

I am aware that Letters Patent No. 47 ,205 were issued to I. and F.Hinkel on the 11th day of April, 1865, for a gas-generator, and 9oconsider my invention an improvement on Hinkels device, as I can operatewith less pressure, do not strain the ilexible funnel-, shapedextension, andfinally, the flexible funnel-shaped extension in myapparatus does not wrinkle, as the flexible funnel-shaped eX- tension inthe Hinkel apparatus does.

Having thus described my invention, whatI Claim as new, and desire tosur@ by Letters tension C on the @over F, the rod J, the hookPatent,1's- G, the vessel N, suspended from the @over F, 1o Thecombination, with the vessel A, having and theoutlQt-ube P,substantially as herein a neck, B, ofthe flexible coue-shnped @Xtenshownand described.

5 S1011 C, clamped on the neck B by 2L ring, D, FREDERICK GLAUSS.

the cover F, held in the top of the lexble Vtnesses: funnebshapedextension C, the ring G, clamp- F. A. SOHARR, ing the top of theflexible funnel-shaped ex- GEORGE CLAUSS.

